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“It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.”

Feels Children Feelings Mother Lost Emotion Engaged Elsewhere Parental Ambivalent

Book:The Writings of Anna Freud: Indications for child analysis and other papers, 1945-1956

Source: The Writings of Anna Freud: Indications for child analysis and other papers, 1945-1956

“We strive to teach our children the importance of being caring and compassionate to others. This outpouring of emotion and effort by our children was so gratifying, and what they achieved absolutely exceeded our wildest expectations.”

Children Effort Emotion Teach Expectations Importance Our Children Strive Caring Compassionate

Author:Jeff B. Davis

“What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to your child, even though the possibility is remote, you may find it very difficult to think of anything else. Emotion becomes dominant.”

Thinking May Children Matter Happens Fear Difficult Emotion Possibility Terrible Our Children Raised Your Children Dominant Probability

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have, and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people, their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely, so openly, so unambivalently, is for many children a unique and lasting experience.”

People Firsts Children Facts Love Is Emotion Our Lives Childhood Dog Return Unique Remains Lasting

Author:Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

“Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. . . . It is more important to pave the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts that he is not ready to assimilate.”

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower; when they are faithfully helpful and compassionate, all their emotions become steady, deep, perpetual, and vivifying to the soul as the natural pulse to the body. But now, having no true business, we pour our whole masculine energy into the false business of money-making; and having no true emotion, we must have false emotions dressed up for us to play with, not innocently, as children with dolls, but guiltily and darkly.”

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical...it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.”

Thinking Feels Children Bigs Film Party Emotion Laughing Cry Like You Singing India Dancing Cinema

Author:Karan Johar

“Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the universe. Our rigid separation of the humanities and the sciences has temporarily left our art stranded or stammering and incoherent. Both art and science ought to be blended in our early education of our children's emotions and powers of observation, and that harmony carried forward in later education.”